ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,662, issued on April 1, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).
"Twine tension control assembly" was invented by Bernard Dean Regier (Hesston, Kan.) and Travis Wade Horchem (Hesston, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baler twine tension control assembly including a displacement detector and elements defining a twine path. The twine path enters and exits the twine tension control assembly and within the twine tension control assembly extends across a first fixed location and a second fixed location as well as across an intermediate displaceable location located between the first fixed location and the second fixed location. The ...